Archive Reference (shelfmark): 1783.cc.20 / Material Type: Photographs / Level: [40] File - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(1)
Title:: [River launch 'Explorador' beached beside a river at an unknown location.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:: This view appears to be unconnected with the Frisch photographs that comprise the bulk of the album.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(2)
Title:: Tabatinga (rive gauche). (Côté du Brésil), 1re. Station de la ligne des bateaux à Vapeur, poste militaire brésilien à la frontière du Pérou. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Brazilian bank of the Solimões (Amazon) at Tabatinga (modern Sapurara), with cannons facing the water in the foreground and the buildings of the military post beyond. With two soldiers posed in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(3)
Title:: La cuisine de la Malocca N.4, qui se trouve toujours à une petite distance de l'habitation. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography General view of an Indian cooking hut in a clearing, always situated apart from the 'malocca' or communal living house, with three figures posed in the open-sided thatched structure. Various implements and utensils - cooking pots, baskets and tools - are includ...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(4)
Title:: Tonantins (rive gauche). 3me. Station des bateaux à vapeur, située sur le lac du même nom, contenant 15 maisons et 60 habitants, avec le vapeur de la ligne Icamiaba et le bateau du photographe, qui a fait 400 lieues de route sur l'Amazonas et ses confluents en 5 mois de temps, lui et 2 hommes. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the riverbank towards the houses of the village, with the paddle steamer 'Icamiaba' moored in the background. The photographer's own covered canoe, mentioned in the caption and also seen in print 50, is moored against the bank in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(5)
Title:: Feitoria. Pirrarucû. (Pêcherie du poison Pirrarucu). Sur la plage de Genipappo sur l'Amazon, rive droite, vis-à-vis de la 1re. embouchure du Japurá. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography View showing a woman seated in an open-sided thatched hut on the beach, with the river in the background. Fishing nets can be seen hanging in the low covered structures in the background. The Japurá river joins the Solimões (Amazon) a little to the north-west o...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(6)
Title:: Sitio de Tapuyas (métis), avec toute une famille, au lac de Ixiticca, avec plantation de Capaçu (cacao blanc). Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Mixed-race Tapuya family group, posed in front of their open-sided thatched hut, situated in a cocoa plantation near Lake Ixiticca (location untraced). 'Sitio' means a country house or farm in both Spanish and Portuguese .
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(7)
Title:: Sitio de Tapuyas (métis), au bord du Solimões avec 2 arbres Assacu, dont la sêve brûle instantanément la peau. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Mixed-race Tapuya family group posed in front of their thatched house in a forest clearing on the Solimões (Amazon). The poisonous trees mentioned in the caption, a little over five feet high, stand in front of the house. 'Sitio' means a country house or farm in...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(8)
Title:: Japurá (rive gauche). Grande rivière, venant de la Nouvelle Granade; avec un bateau chargé de ce pays, en route depuis 12 mois pour se rendre à Coari; y vendre ses produits et remonter ensuite l'Iça pour s'en retourner. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Close view of a covered trading canoe on the Japurá river, paddled by Indians and with the overseer standing amidships. The Japurá rises in Colombia and flows eastwards to join the Solimões (Amazon) above Tefé.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(9)
Title:: Manáos. Le port. 8me. station de la Compagnie. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bank of the Rio Negro towards the houses of Manaus, with small craft moored along the riverbank. Manaus is situated just above the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Amazon.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(10)
Title:: Manáos. Une famille de Tapuyas, à la porte de leur maison, dans une rue de la ville. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group portrait of a Tapuya family at Manaus, posed in front of the entrance to their home. The walls of the row of houses are constructed of baked mud bricks with wattle courses. A woman sits with a spinning wheel on the left (see also print 41).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

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